MUTINY IN ROYAL NAVY
Five Charged After Protest (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, July 14.: The Royal Navy yesterday began to deal with its first mutiny for 16 years. Five young sailors aboard the minesweeper Iveston were charged, after a sit-down protest alleged to have been made because they considered that their ship had been too long at sea.
They will appear before a court-martial later this month.
The protest, which is said to have taken place while the Iveston was anchored in Scotish waters earlier this month, caused civilian police to be called to a Royal Navy vessel for the first time this century. Mutiny in the face of the enemy still carries the death sentence under British service law and, in peace-time, a maximuip of life imprisonment. .
The last mutiny charge was in 1954, when two ratings were sentenced to four and five years imprisonment.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32349, 15 July 1970, Page 5
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